Wall-closet mounting.



T. BARROW.

WALL CLOSET MOUNTING.

APPLICAHON men ""31, 1912.

I Patenfed Apr; 4, 1916.

2 SHEETS-SHEET I HW W Patented Apr. 4, 1916.

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WALL-CLOSET MOUNTING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 4, 1916.

Application filed May 31, 1912. Serial No. 700,826.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TIMOTHY Bannow, citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois. have invented certain new and useful Improvements in \Vall-Closet Mountings; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, aml exact description of the invention, such .as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has for its object to pro vide an improved means for securing closet bowls in place against a partition wall without placing any strain, stress or load upon the latter, and relates more particularly to means whereby the closet bowl is held in place by and at least partially supported upon the soil pipe into which it discharges.

In the accompanying drawings illustrat ing this invention: Figure 1 is a fragmentary detail sectional view partly in elevation showing the closet bowl mounting constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary horizontal section on the line L-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail front elevation of a collar employed. Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 1 showing a modified form of construction. Fig. 5 is a view in front elevation of the collar employed in the construction shown in Fig. 4.

One object of the invention is to provide readily adjustable and easily applied means whereby the position of a closet bowl relatively to a partition wall may be easily fixed and the. mounting of the bowl readily effected with a minimum number of bolts or similar fastening means.

A further and very important object of the invention is to provide fastening means whereby the closet bowl is maintained rigid with its supporting part entirely independently of the partition wall and is rendered incapable of movement in any direction relatively to the latter so that" strains or stresses thereon will be impossible.

A still further object of the invention is to provide means whereby the closet bowl may be mounted and supported upon a forty-five degree outlet or T-coupling of the soil pipe.

The invention resides more particularly in the details of construction and particular combinations of parts whereby the specific results hereinafter enumerated are produced.

The closet bowl employed in connection with my mounting means may be of any suitable pattern of what is known as the wall type, that is, a closet which is entirely devoid of a floor support.

The invention resides more particularly in a mounting for closet bowls of the wall type in which the outlet or discharge opening is arranged to connect with a forty-five degree T or nipple secured to and connected with the soil pipe though the invention is equally adaptable to that type of .closet in which the soil pipe connection is horizontally disposed.

In the construction shown in Figs. 1 to .3 inclusive, in which the mounting for the forty-five degree discharge connection is particularly illustrated, the discharge end of the closet bowl 1 presents a face 2 disposed at an angle of forty-five degrees to the horizontal plane of the floor and the vertical plane of the partition wall 3 against which the bowl is adapted to abut. Insaid face 2 surrounding the discharge opening of the bowl there is an annular groove to receive the packing at against which the end of a member 5 is adapted to bear to compress the same. The rear face of the bowl is vertically disposed and is provided with a relatively large elongated opening 6 through which said member 5 projects. The said bowl is provided at opposite sides and at its lower end contiguous to the rear end thereof with flanges through which are openings for the passage of bolts 7 and 8 respectively. From the coupling 9 of the soil pipe 10 there extends a member 10 threaded at both ends to adapt the same to receive the internally. threaded collar 11 which also receives one end of the member The collar 11 is provided with diametrically oppositely disposed projections 12 and l3respectively, the projection 12 having two diverging arms 14 washers,

tight so each of which is provided with a threaded opening to receive one of the bolts 7. The projection 13 is similarly provided with a threaded opening to receive the threaded end of the bolt 8.

further provided with a threaded opening to receive a threaded member 15 adapted to rest in or upon the floor, as shown; the threaded connection shown between member 15 and the projecflanges of the closet bowl 1 through which 3 said bolts areadapted to pass. The bolts 7 and 8 when engaged the openings in said arms 14 of the projection 12 and in the projection 13 will obviously serve to draw the closet bowl toward said respective arms and projections, The collar 11, it will be noted, serves as a coupling for the member 5 and member 10.

It is desirable that no strain, stress or load should be borne by the partition wall 3 which usually consists of a relatively thin slab of marble or similar material. To relieve the latter of strain it is obviously necessary to throw all strains or stresses upon the collar 11 and its integral parts and thereby upon said member 5 and soil pipe 10, and to this end separator sleeves 16 are introduced between. the flanges of the closet bowl through which the bolts 7 and 8 passand the opposing faces of the projections 12 and 13 of the collar 11.v Said separator sleeves may consist of sections of pipe or other similar material and in order that the same may be properly adjusted in length so as to throw the rear face of the closet bowl into contact but Without bearing upon the partition wall 3, the said separator sleeves are rendered shorter than the-distance between the opposing faces betweenwhich they are interposed and the remainder of the space taken up by washers 17 interposed between one or both ends of said sleeves and one or both of the opposing surfaces between which said sleeves are interposed. After said sleeves and said together of proper length, have been interposed, the bolts may be drawn up bowl in position sothat the latter lies in direct contact with the partition wall 3 but, as before stated, without bearing upon or imposing any strain or stress thereon. The

collar 11 may be suitably secured against rotation relative to themember 5 by means The said projection 13 isin its outer end preferably of the member 15, as will be obvious or the be maintained. The said T-coupling 19 of as to very firmly secure the closet.

securing means relative to tion in any suitable manner.

Ordinarily a tension strainis imparted to the bolts 7 and compression strain upon the separator sleeve 16 and the washers interposed between oneend of the same and-one or both of. the opposing surfaces, but 'in sweeping underneath the bowl or making,

repairs in the flooring and the like it is pos-. sible that the closet bowl may bemoved so. as to throw a strainupon the partition wall 3. In the construction illustrated such movement of the closet bowl in any direction relative to-the partition wall 3 and the mem--- ber 5 would be rendered impossible, as will be obvious, as is also any movement inthe joint effected between: the member fi and-the closet bowl whereby leakage might result.

In closets of this type the bowl is somewhat removed from the stack or soil pipe and under ordinary conditions exerts a relatively great strain onvthe latter, such strain being about a horizontal axis and constitut-' ing a pressure on the stackbelow and tow sion above said axis. The stacks employed are usually very heavy and stid and therefore will not yield to such strains.

In Figs. 4 and 5 I have invention as applied to closet bowl adapt ed to be connected with a horizontally disposed member or illustrated the portion connected with the the soil-pipe 20. In this.

construction the projections 21 and 22 of the v collar 23, corresponding to the arms 14 projection 13 of the collar -11, shown :in

Figs. 1, 2 and 3, wardly from said collar 23 and are adapted and I extend radially and out-.

to receive similar bolts 7 and 8 connecting the: I

closet bowl therewith. The separator sleeves 16 and washers 17 are similarly introduced and effect the same purpose in this construction as in the constructionshown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3.

In both constructions the member 15 serves to prevent any rotary movement of the closet the soil-pipe and.

may also serve to transmit the pressure or weightof the bowl' to the floor, as will be obvious. It is also obvious that afirmer support for the closet bowl is provided than would otherwise be afforded besides relieving. the soil pipe of a part of the strain to which it would otherwise be subjected.

The invention is very simple and efficient.

I claim as my invention:

1. The combination with a wall closet and a soil ipe, of a branch from the latter adapted to connect with thecloset, a collar on said branch having a plurality of arms,

bolts for effecting connection between said arms and the closet, and separator sleeves on said bolts between said arms and the closet.

2. The combination with a wall closet and of a branch from the latter adapted to connect with the closet, a collar on said branch having a plurality of arms, bolts for effecting connection between said arms and the closet, separator sleeves on said bolts between said arms a foot secured to one of said arms for ati'ording a floor support so as to prevent rotative movement of said collar.

3. The combination with a wall closet and a soil pipe, of a coupling in the latter, a member having threaded connection therewith and adapted to connect with the discharge end of the bowl, a threaded collar on said member having a plurality of arms, bolts for eti'ecting connection between said arms and said bowl, and separator sleeves for said bolts interposed between the opposing faces of said arms and said bowl.

4. The combination with a wall closet and a soil pipe, of a coupling in the latter, a member having threaded connection therewith and adapted to connect with the discharge end of the bowl, a threaded collar on said-member having a plurality of arms, bolts for effecting connection between said arms and said bowl, separator sleeves for said bolts interposed between the opposing faces of said arms and said bowl, and a foot secured to one of said arms for affording a support to prevent rotative movement of said collar.

5. The combination with a wall closet and a soil pipe, of an exteriorly threaded branch from the latter, a collar thereon having a plurality of arms, a threaded member connecting with said collar and at its other end with the discharge end of the closet, said collar serving as a coupling for said branch and said member,and bolts for effecting supporting connection between the closet and the arms of said collar.

(3. The combination with a wall closet and a soil pipe. of an exteriorly threaded branch from the latter, a collar thereon having a plurality of arms, a threaded member connecting with said collar and at its other end with the discharge end of the closet, said collar serving as a coupling for said branch and said member, bolts for etl'ecting supporting connection between the closet and the arms of said collar, and means for supporting the said collar against rotative movement on said branch.

7. The combination of a closet-bowl having a vertical rear face adapted'to tit up flush against a side wall or partition, and a soil-pipe, with means located on the soilpipeside of the. wall or partition and adjust ably secured to the soilpipc whereby the bowl is maintained at an elevation above. the floor against the wall or partition without transmitting strains thereto, a portion of said means being adapted to extend to the a soil pipe,

and the closet, and

' the bowl is effected, and

floor and tion of said means to the soil-pipe; J

8. A mounting for a wall closet comprising in combination the soil pipe, an angular branch adapted to connect with the discharge end ot' the closet, a threaded collar on said branch having arms angularly disposed relatively to the plane thereof and adapted at a given point in the revolution of said collar to be disposed in a vertical plane, and bolts for effecting connection'between said arms and the closet.

' QJAnmuntingl'for a wall closet compris ing, in combination, the soil pipe, an angular branch adapted to i connect with the dis- 'charge end of the closet, a threaded collar on said branch having arms angularly disposed relatively to the plane thereof and adapted at a given point in the revolution of said collar to be disposed in a vertical plane, bolts for effecting connection between said arms and the closet, and separator sleeves onsaid bolts between said arms and said bowl.

10. The combination of a bowl having a vertical rear face adapted to fit up flush against a side wall or partition, and a soil pipe arranged onv the opposite side otthe wall or partition, with a member adapted to be secured to the soil-pipe and provided with a plurality of upwardly diverging arms and a depending arm, means whereby connection between said'diverging arms and means adapted to extend intermediate of said depending arm and the floor and having adjustable relation with said depending arm whereby the relative position of said member is maintained. 11. The combination with a closet bowl having a vertical rear face adapted to fit up tlush against a side wall or. partition, and a soil-pipe, of means located on the soil-pipe side of the wall or partition and adjustably secured to the soil-pipe whereby the bowl is supported and maintainedat an elevation above the floor and strains on the bowl taken up by said in Hans, said means being provided with a depending portion whereby the proper relative position of said means to the soil-pipe is maintained.

12. A wall closet bowl support, comprising means located on the soil-pipe side of a wall or partition and surrounding the soilpipc branch or lateral connection which communicates with the discharge opening of a bowl' whereby the bowl is maintained against the opposite side of the wall or partition and at an elevation above the floor, a portion of said means being adjustable so that strains on the bowl will be taken up by said means, and a floor support having adpistable relation with said means.

13. A water closet bowl support, comprising a member having an opening theremaintain the proper relative posihrough for receiving the lateral connection vIn testimony whereof I have signedmy 1 means for seeuring 1:fhe bowl to said. membker nesses.

and for adjusting t e horizontal level of t e I 5 bowl, and means intermediate of said I'nem- TIMOTHY BARROW' lger and the floor whereby the member may Witnesses: be vertically adjusted and supported by the RUDOLPH WMn Lo'rz,

floor. M. M. BOYLE intermediate of the bowl and the soilpipe, name 'in presence of two subseribingwit-10 

